“We are constantly worrying when it rains again. This is the second time we have been hit,” said the 30-year-old.

“We had just had the floors sanitised in the last week and work was meant to start on the kitchen, but that’s not going to happen now.”

Residents along nearby Green Lane Gardens also vented their anger as flooding at the front and back of their houses caused panic once again. Grandmother-of-one Joanne Smith had just moved back into her home with daughter Michaela, 20, and son Dean, 16, after flooding in June caused extensive damage.

Joanne, who had been living with her eldest daughter Natasha and grandson Charlie, told of her disgust that more had not been done to ease flooding problems in the area in front of her home.

“We have not heard from anyone from Gateshead Council. It has just been a nightmare here,” she said.

“I don’t want my grandson coming into this house because you don’t know what he could pick up. I have lived here almost 16 years and I loved it here, but I have almost had enough.”

Neighbour Lynn Johnson echoed Joanne’s sentiments.

The 36-year-old said: “We are living in fear every time it rains. We do not know what we are going to come back to.

“I am really sick of it and wish the council would move us out.”

Residents also complained that they are now plagued by rats and other vermin because of the waters.

John Robinson, Gateshead Council group director of local environmental services, said: “Since the last flash floods at the end of June drains in this area have been cleaned and council staff have been out again to help residents. The sheer amount of rain that Gateshead has experienced has been unprecedented.

“Now we’re focusing on the clean-up, providing temporary accommodation and returning residents’ lives back to normal.

“We are obviously concerned about the disruption this has caused to people’s lives, particularly to those residents who have been affected twice, and we’ll do everything we can to provide support for them.”

On Sunday the region was hit by 40.6mm of rain in one hour and 45 minutes, which brought some roads and the Metro system to a near standstill. In just three hours between 2pm and 5pm Tyne & Wear Fire and Rescue received 199 calls.

Yesterday heavy rain swept Tyneside once again.

The Central Motorway in Newcastle was under three feet of water and the Shields Road bypass in Byker was closed for a time.

The Metro service was affected again with a brief closure between Regent Centre in Gosforth and the airport.

I don’t know what we’re going to do

TORRENTIAL rain has put Shelly Burnham’s home repairs back to square one.

The mum-of-one has been left devastated by the flooding, which saw her home in Eastwood Gardens, Felling, badly hit once again.

"We had just had the kitchen done and the floors sanitised. Now we are back to where we started," said the 36-year-old. "I have not slept since yesterday and my son Jordan is petrified," she said. Shelly said she will be forced to sleep in the upstairs of her house as water reached around five foot high inside, destroying everything downstairs.

"My landlord had already paid for the work to begin. I don’t know how we’ll afford to do it all again.

"I am going to call social services because my son can’t live in these conditions and the council won’t touch us because we are in private property," said Shelly, who was rescued by the fire service with her dog Lucky.

We are the forgotten street

RESIDENTS claim they are living in a "forgotten street" after flooding devastated the area once again.

Paula and Jason Hempstead had just moved from Essex into their new house in Causeway, Sheriff Hill, Gateshead, four days before the first floods hit on June 28.

"We have just been here over five weeks and been flooded twice," said Paula, 32.

The mum-of-two said her children are now scared to come downstairs. The couple, who have been married five years, moved to be closer to Jason’s parents, who live in Ashington – but they are considering moving again.

Neighbours Vivienne and George Murphy have also been left distraught.

Vivienne, a great-grandmother, said: "We had raw human sewage in here on Sunday. This is what we have been left in.

"With my husband in poor health, we cannot take any more.

"We are the forgotten street."

More on the way

WARNINGS of more rain continue across the region today.

Although forecasters have said the rain will ease off compared to Sunday and Monday’s torrential downpours, residents are being warned to brace themselves for more rain today.

However, the weather is due to improve across Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with mainly cloudy, dry spells.

There could be brighter spells in the afternoon on Thursday but the Met Office are predicting more cloud and grey skies for the region from Wednesday on.